Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-12-06

the bug isn't Killed nrst. Long, awl-
shaped antenne, each with eighty joints,
decorate his head. The bugs will st al
most anything they can find. Flour,
bread, meat, clothes and shoes are some
Of their delicacies. In dwellings their
usual forage is the crumbs and other
leavings of the kitchen and table. They
are essentially nocturnal, disappearing
into chinks and creyices the moment a
light appears, but Of late they have be-
come so abundant in New York that the
chinks and crevices won't hold them.
and they are perforce seen much around
during the daylight.
The roach is not as rapid breeder as
many other insects, but il seems to have
remarkable success in raising families
The eggs are laid in little bean-shaped
capsule, three-eighths Of an inch long and
half as wide. In this the eggs, about
thirty in number, lie like peas in a pod
for several days. when the pod opens at
one side and let's the little, soft, white
baby reaches out, after which it closes
tight again and gives no sign that the
eggs are not within as before. The fe-
males, before the eggs are hatched, draw
the egg SIC around behind them wher-
ever they so, and their appearance with
this appendage has excited much interest
among kitchen amateurs in bugology.
After the young are hatched. the female
Is said TO brood oyer them somewhat as
hen does. In fhree or four days the
young bug turns from white TO brown
and is ready for business.
A peculiarly disagreeable feature of the
roach is the bad habit it has of discharg-
ing from iss mouth dark colored liquid
that has most disgusting smell. Every
place which the insects frequent becomes
in time impregnated with this nauseous
odor, which sometimes Is so powerful
that il sensibly affects the flavor of pro-
visions that have been left in larders in
which reaches are plentiful.
Another kind of roach is officially
known rs the ectobia GCrmanica, and is
peculiarly fond of Boston, where it is
known as the "Croton bug" This insect
has got over the nocturnal habits Of the
ordinary roach. II goes around freely in
daylight, and for real solid meals prefers
wheat bread. As light lunch it is par
tial to cloth bound books. Leather bound
books il will not touch.
In Lapland they have the blatta lap
ponica, smaller than the common roach,
but with such astonishing yoracity that
they frequently devour al one day the
entire stock Of dried fish N a Laplander's
cabin.
Fully as voracious are sort of reaches
thst infest ships. 1t sometimes occurs
that the steward goins to open box of
crackers finds inside nothing but mass
of reaches. In st. Petersburg it has been
necessary to destroy houses that had been
made uninhabitable by reaches.
There are in all some 900 different
reaches that have been caught and cata-
lcgued. A large section of the world is
still 10 hear from.
With all his manifold vices il is pleasant
to know that the roach is not altogether
bad. There yet remains in the breast Of
even the fattest and ugliest roach that
ever spoiled custard pie one sentiment
sprung from the heaven born heart Of
Aboos h'i n"bihS WHICH, illo 10
descended. Though innumerable dam
aged dinners, ruined luucheuns without
end and an uncounted host of breakfasts
made odious by his unwelcomc presence
lie charged up against him; though many
firesidcs have been desolated by Jim and
numberless pantries laid waste. yet let
there. in justice. be set against hIs name
one legend Uf righteous!Icss-th roach
eats bedbugs.
Many things eat roaches. Birds and
all insectivorous animals are especially
fond of them. Hedgehogs dote ON them.
In England hedgehogs are sometimes kept
in kitchens ON purpose TO devour the
reaches. 1t IL also said that in the Isle Of
trance there exists sort of sand wasp
that preys upon reaches. New York
Sun.